Table-cover fastener



(Mew E. B. KNA'PP & H. L. THOMPSON.

TABLE COVER FASTENER.

No. 401,283. Patented Apr. 9, 18 89L fiELL thou 121 0 I L N. PETERS.Frwwumn UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND BURKE KNAPP AND HENRY LOUIS THOMPSON, OF SAN JAOINTO, CALIFORNIA.

TABLE-COVER FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,283, dated April 9,1889. Application filed Tune 8, 1888. $erial No. 276,538. (No model.)

Our invention relates to a table-cover fastener; and it consists in acertain novel construction and arrangement of devices, fully set forthhereinafter, in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein-Figure 1 is a perspective View of a table, the cover of which is held inplace by the improved fastener. Fig. 2 is a side view of the band withthe covering flap or plate thrown back. Fig. 3 is a similar view withthe parts detached. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section of the joint betweenthe meeting ends of the band.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A designates a metallic bandpassing around the top of the table, (which may be round, square,elliptical, or any other ordinary shape) and it is provided at suitablepoints with perforations B, through which pass small staples O, whichare driven into the table-top. One end of the band is provided with atongue, D, which passes through a vertical slot, E, in the other end ofthe band, and the said tongue is provided with a series of apertures, F,which align with a longitudinal slot, G, in the other end of the band,whereby the staple H, which passes through the apertures also passesthrough the slot, engages the table-top.

I represents a covering flap or plate to conceal the joint between theends of the band, and it is provided near oneend with a vertical slot,K, to receive the band, as shown in .Fig. 2, and at the other end withan aperture, L, through which a screw, M, passes. This screw passesthrough the inner end of the slot G and engages the table -top. Thisband passes firmly upon the table-cover and holds it more smoothlyspread or stretched than tacks, for the reason that the intervalsbetween the tacks allow the cover to stretch or bulge.

The fastener can be made to suit any size and shape of table, and theends are readily and firmly secured together. The appearance of a tablethe cover of which is held on by the improved fastener is novel andornamental.

Having thus described our invention, we

claim 1. In a fastener for table-top covers, the combination, with theflat band having its meeting ends secured together, of the detachablecovering fiap or plate provided with a transverse slotiitting over thesaid hand and covering the joint between the meeting ends of the band,substantially as specified.

2. The fastener for table-top covers, con- G, and a vertical slot, E, inone end, the tongue on the opposite end passing through the verticalslot and having a series of apertures registering with the slot G, andthe staple sisting of a band having a longitudinal slot,

passing through the apertures and the slot G and engaging the table-top,substantially as specified.

3. In a fastener for table-top covers, the metallic band having slots Eand G therein,

the apertured tongue passing through the slot ceive the band and anaperture to receive a 8 screw, substantially as specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have heretoafiixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

EDMUND BURKE KNAPP. HENRY LOUIS THOMPSON.

Witnesses:

L. E. LEEMAN, E. C. HEARD.

